Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy.

Autor/in	Pal, Sarmistha
Titel	Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2009), 37 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 4572
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Allgemein bildende Schule; Privatschule; Standort; Gemeinde (Kommune); Arbeitspapier; Infrastruktur; Indien
Abstract	The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE survey data from five north Indian states provide some support to this central hypothesis: even after controlling for all other factors, access to village infrastructural facilities is associated with a higher likelihood of having a private school in the community. This is also corroborated by an analysis of household demand for private schools. The paper concludes by examining the effect of private school presence on year 5 pass rates: while all-school pass rates are significantly higher in villages with a private school, private school presence fails to have significant effect on local state school pass rates.
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Update	2010/3